United States Second Circuit

A suit seeking damages for police brutality, allegedly inflicted upon claimant 35 years ago, will not be revived by equitable tolling despite the recantation of an officer's story, where claimant cannot validly claim concealment of his causes of action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/15/2002
• Published 07/15/2002

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WALKER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephan H. Peskin,Tolmage, Peskin, Harris & Falick, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan C. Moore, New York, NY;  William H. Goodman, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Corey E. Klein, Acting Corporation Counsel, Long Beach, NY, for Defendants-Appellees The City of Long Beach and Long Beach City Police Department., Orrit Hershkovitz, Snitow Kanfer Holtzer & Millus, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Paul F. Millus, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Leo Nolan., Michael T. Hopkins, Hopkins & Kopilow, Garden City, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Arthur Whitman., Christine McInerney, Ruskin, Moscou, Evans & Faltischek, P.C., Uniondale, NY, submitted papers for Defendant-Appellee Vincent Milo.